Red Butte Garden & Arboretum offers field trips for K-12 publicly funded schools at no cost through the iSEE program! Confirmed reservation required.
Any group not from a K-12 publicly funded school (daycares, summer camps, private schools, afterschool, etc.) should use this form found HERE.
Field Trip Options
DIY Red Butte Field Trip
Red Butte Field Trip + Field Investigation
Partnership Red Butte + NHMU Field Trip
How To Request & Availability
Field Trips for the 2025-2026 school year will be open for request on August 4th at 10 AM.
Partnership Red Butte + NHMU Field Trip requests will be completed on our website for the 25/26 school year.
- Review the Field Trip Options and select one for your group.
- Select the time and date from our Field Trip Calendar.
- Complete the Request Form.
- If you finish the request and are met with an error message your selected time slot has been reserved by another group. You will have to return to the calendar to select a new time slot and submit another request.
- Look out for a confirmation request from fieldtrips@redbutte.utah.edu. Confirmed reservations are required. Confirmed reservations may take up to two weeks.
You can preview what information is needed in our Partnership request form by viewing this PDF.
You can preview what information is needed in our DIY and Field Investigation request form by viewing this PDF .
If you'd like to be added to our newsletter for School Programs offerings and Field Trip openings for the 2025-2026 school year, please email fieldtrips@redbutte.utah.edu.
Field Trip Calendar
All Field Trips must be requested two weeks prior to the date of your field trip.
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Field Trip Options
(DIY) Do It Yourself Red Butte Field Trip
Make Red Butte your classroom for the day with your K - 12th grade students!
- Offered to all school groups and is our only current offering for Kindergarten and 7th - 12th grade groups.
- DIY Field Trips have 5 time slots a week. We have one time slot on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, with two time slots on Fridays during our season in April + May and September + October.
- Field trips are led by school chaperones and teachers.
- DIY Field Trips include maps for chaperones and options for printable student journals that are appropriate for K - 6th grade students.
- Includes passes for adult chaperones and teachers to return to Red Butte at no cost.
- We require 1 adult chaperone for every 5 students. Required chaperones receive Garden admission.
*Field Trip reservations are 2 hours.
Red Butte Field Trip + Field Investigation
Explore Red Butte with your students and embark on a SEEd aligned science investigation!
- Red Butte Field Trip + Field Investigations are currently offered to 1st - 6th grade groups with grade specific investigations aligned to Utah's SEEd Standards.
- These trips are offered on Thursdays with two time slots available during our season in April + May and September + October. Some weeks have additional field investigation trips, reference our calendar for all available dates.
- Field trips are led by school chaperones and teachers.
- Garden Educators are stationed throughout the garden with grade specific SEEd aligned activities to support the investigation.
- Click HERE to learn more about the field investigations.
- Materials are provided by Red Butte at the beginning of a trip and include:
- Investigation specific science field journals and pencils for students
- Chaperone packs with maps and tools
- Passes for adult chaperones and teachers to return to Red Butte at no cost
- We require 1 adult chaperone for every 5 students. Required chaperones receive Garden admission.
*Field Trip reservations are 2 hours.
Partnership Red Butte + NHMU
We partner with the Natural History Museum of Utah for full day field trips. To learn more about the partnership field trip experience, please visit HERE.
- Partnership Field Trips are offered to all school groups.
- Partnership Field Trips are offered on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays during our shared season in April + May and September + October.
- Field trips are led by school chaperones and teachers.
- The Field Investigations at Red Butte are offered to 1st - 6th grade groups.
- The Field Investigations have Garden Educators stationed throughout the garden with grade specific SEEd aligned activities to enhance the investigation.
- Click HERE to learn more about the field investigations.
- Materials are provided by Red Butte at the beginning of a trip and include:
- Investigation specific science field journals and pencils for students
- Chaperone packs with maps and tools
- The Field Investigations have Garden Educators stationed throughout the garden with grade specific SEEd aligned activities to enhance the investigation.
- Kindergarten and 7th - 12th grade groups will have a DIY Field Trip at Red Butte. To learn more about DIY Field Trips click HERE.
- We give passes to adult chaperones and teachers to return to Red Butte at no cost.
- We require 1 adult chaperone for every 5 students. Required chaperones receive Garden admission.
*Field Trip reservations are typically ~1.5 hours - 2 hours at each facility depending on grade level. It is a full day field trip with lunch reservations at NHMU.
Questions? Contact us at: fieldtrips@redbutte.utah.edu